Exam question 2 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between green and black tea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: relationship

This is exam question 2 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 relationship	det
10	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	between	between	ADP	_	15 tea	case
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tea	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 black	cc
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 green	conj
15	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 relationship	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the relationship				of the following statements; between green tea; accurately property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Black tea is produced by burning green tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tea	amod
2	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 produced	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 produced	aux:pass
4	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 burning	mark
6	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 produced	advcl
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tea	amod
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	present · passive		Black tea					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	burn	gerund		green tea					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tea=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both are derived from the same plant, black tea having been crushed and permitted to darken

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 derived	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 derived	aux:pass
3	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 plant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plant	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plant	amod
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 derived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tea	punct
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tea	amod
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plant	appos
11	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 tea	acl
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 crushed	aux:pass
13	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 having	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 permitted	cc
15	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 derived	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 darken	mark
17	darken	darken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 permitted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	derive	present · passive		Both	the same plant	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from plant=Material
2	have	gerund	black tea not said here			tree rules
3	crush	participle · passive	black tea not said here			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»
4	permit	participle				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
5	darken not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Green tea is obtained from the unripe berries of the tea plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tea	amod
2	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obtained	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obtained	aux:pass
4	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 berries	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 berries	det
7	unripe	unripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 berries	amod
8	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 obtained	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 plant	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plant	det
11	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plant	compound
12	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 berries	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	present · passive		Green tea		the unripe berries of the tea plant			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from berry=Source

Option 4

They are derived from two unrelated species

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 derived	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 derived	aux:pass
3	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 species	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 species	nummod
6	unrelated	unrelated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 species	amod
7	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 derived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	derive	present · passive		They		two unrelated species			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from species=Material

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/e2/